2008 California Oil Spill Incident Report

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Meghan Fletcher true
02-22-2021

Overview: The maps within this report reveal the number of oilspill incident across California in 2008. Oil spill data was utilized from CA DFW Oil Spill Incident Tracking created by the California State Geoportal: https://map.dfg.ca.gov/metadata/ds0394.html

Figure 1: Each point on this map of California represents a specific oil spill incident from 2008 (Data: CA DFW Oil Spill Incident Tracking, 2008)."

Figure 2: This interactive map allows viewers to zoom in on specific regions of California to more precisely see where these oil spill incidents occured in 2008 (CA DFW Oil Spill Incident Tracking, 2008).

Figure 3: The chloropleth map of California reveals which counties had the most oil spill incidents in 2008. The darkest counties are those that experienced the greatest number of incidents and the lightest are those that experienced the least (Data: CA DFW Oil Spill Incident Tracking, 2008).